Quotes on Lateral Thinking

Musical comedies aren't written, they are rewritten.

The ability to perceive or think differently is more important than the knowledge gained.

There is no doubt that creativity is the most important human resource of all. Without creativity, there would be no progress, and we would be forever repeating the same patterns.

Every great advance in science has issued from a new audacity of imagination.

The only joy in the world is to begin.

Intelligence is something we are born with. Thinking is a skill that must be learned.

Every exit is an entry somewhere else.

The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn.

A successful work of art is not one which resolves objective contradictions in a spurious harmony, but one which expresses the idea of harmony negatively by embodying the contradictions, pure and uncompromised, in its innermost structure.

In the creative state a man is taken out of himself. He lets down as it were a bucket into his subconscious, and draws up something which is normally beyond his reach. He mixes this thing with his normal experiences and out of the mixture he makes a work of art.

Imagination is the beginning of creation.

If you wish to advance into the infinite, explore the finite in all directions.

A person needs a little madness, or else they never dare cut the rope and be free.

Greater than the tread of mighty armies is an idea whose time has come.

If at first the idea is not absurd, then there is no hope for it.